Best History Museums Spot List

A place connected to Matsuo Basho. A garden with flowers and trees associated with his haiku and Shiseki Tembo Teien with a waterside view are the highlights.

Feel the history of Kitakami at the outdoor museum

You’ll feel as if you’ve gone back in time to prehistoric times.

This is a museum where you can enjoy learning the 400 years of history and culture of Edo-Tokyo.

Learn how Hideyoshi Toyotomi bathed

Observe how sturdy silk fabrics are produced

An open-air museum where historical buildings having high cultural value are restored and displayed on a large site.

Experience the world inside the Man'yoshu

Hokkaido's oldest museum of Ainu culture, with exhibits featuring lifestyle objects and clothing

Fukumatsu Tanaka, the ”Herring Magnate” leader of a fisherman's union, built this lodge in Tomari-mura. Displays include implements related to the herring industry

Once a storehouse, now a museum showcasing Otaru's history and nature

Showcases the culture of northern tribes in expert detail

Passing down Ainu lifestyle and culture

All sorts of history-rich trains on display

Buildings that saw actual usage offer a unique historical experience

Discover the history of a beer dating back to Hokkaido's frontier age

This museum was once a ferry that connected Japan's main island to Hokkaido

Chock-full of discoveries about northern peoples

Reproduces the streets of Fukagawa Saga-cho in the Edo Period so visitors can see the scene and lifestyle of that period.

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